Image courtesy of The Sundial, California State University, Northridge An October 1979 edition of what is now the Miami Student discusses one of the first “Take Back the Night” marches hosted at Miami University’s Oxford campus. The event was sponsored by the local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and …
In this folder, the most interesting page for me is a music festival poster from 1982, it is called “National Women’s Music Festival”, it is a two-night festival in Bloomington, Indiana, the theme is feminism. The entire concert instruments players and singers are feministic activists. Since 1982, the National Women’s Music …
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” That’s it. Plain and simple, the text of the Equal Rights Amendment put forth that everyone should be guaranteed equality under the law regardless of sex. When …
After looking at different advertisement campaigns and the Jo’s beginning works of advertising for women and men, I was inspired to think of a way to spread the word on gender roles my self. Sometimes I feel that the general population including myself does to get the full message when words are just being written …
Jo McQueen was tired of seeing toys for children that promoted a demeaning image of women as homemakers and housewives. So she took it into her own hands to create a doll to be the antidote of these outwardly misogynistic toys. In recent years, articles about Barbie dolls have floated …
This pamphlet was something I ended up scanning shortly before election day this year. To me, this was a great connection between the current election and the election in the context of the scrapbook. In 1982–the beginning of my scrapbook–the Equal Rights Amendment failed to ratify in Congress. This meant …
I simply love this column, it is right to the point and powerful in so many ways. From what ever year you grew up in everyone has witnessed a man saying this either in a movie, TV show or in their own life. It is one of the most degrading …
“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married…she’s now got the big phony tits…” “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy, you can do anything.” “No, I have no age–I mean, …
Wasted relationships While looking throughout the scrapbook when I was digitizing, I came across a handwritten letter that caught my eye. A letter addressed to Joanne from her friend Richard, was an intimate and meaningful letter talking about Joanne’s courage to speak about her childhood in her booklets. Something that …
In the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade of 1973, it was ruled that women had the right to make the decision of aborting a pregnancy under the Right to Privacy. While such a universally known case might be thought to be the voice of authority to end the debate of …